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• Myths and Legends

The Story of ‘Syrenka Warszawska’ – the Warsaw Mermaid

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• Myths and Legends

Will-o’-the-wisp – ghost lights at night

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• Travel

Eldon Hole, one of the Seven Wonders of the Peak

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Timbac Mummies of the Philippines: “fire mummies” housed in mountainside caves.

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• History

The mystery of the 2,500-years-old Ballachulish Goddess

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• Travel

Knucker Hole, the home of an ancient Sussex Dragon

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• Myths and Legends

Stikini, the owl witches of Seminole folklore

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Yūrei: the Ghosts of Japan

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• Myths and Legends

Hodag: the outlandish story of Wisconsin’s mythical beast

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions
• Weather

Does the moon affect weather? Lunar folklore, moon magic, weather lore and science

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Mugwort: a medicinal (and magical) weed

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• Myths and Legends
• Weather

What is a Rainbow? Myths and legends throughout history

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• Travel

The Iron Pillar of Qutub Minar, the 1,600-Year-Old ancient wonder that refuses to rust

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• Myths and Legends

Bean-nighe, the Washerwoman of Death of Scottish Folklore

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• Travel

Kasteel van Horst and the legend of ghost chariot

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• People, mysteries and stories

The macabre story of Sawney Bean, Scotland’s most famous cannibal

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Dwarfie Stane, Britain’s only example of a rock-cut tomb

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Why is Friday the 13th considered unlucky?

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The haunted grave of Angeline Hoagland

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• Myths and Legends

The hoof print on the Rosstrappe: a legend from the Harz mountains

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Ringing of the bluebells: discover obscure folklore around these popular little flowers

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Paschal Full Moon: the curious and complicated link between Easter, Equinox and moon.

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• Myths and Legends

“The Emperor’s New Clothes”, an often forgotten classic.

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• Myths and Legends

The Tale of the Scottish Thistle

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Topienie Marzanny: the drowning of Marzanna, the Winter witch of Slavic folklore

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• Myths and Legends

Ghillie Dhu, the Elf of forest from Scottish Folklore

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• History

Haida’s Totems: the silent guardians of the Northwest coast of Canada

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Irish Superstitions that people still believe ~

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• Myths and Legends

Bunyip: Australia’s Mysterious Amphibian Monster

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• Myths and Legends

Kópakonan, the Seal Woman of Faroe Islands

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• Myths and Legends

Nachzehrers: the shroud eating Vampires of German Folklore

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• Myths and Legends

Loftandi – Iceland’s Air Spirit

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Anna Ravenel, Edgar Allan Poe and the Unitarian Church Graveyard

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• Travel

Phantom Canyon Road: the narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

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• Travel

The curious history Of Vermont’s Witch Windows

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• Myths and Legends

Wanyūdō: one of strangest, most fearsome spirit from Japanese mythology

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• Myths and Legends

Huldufolk: the elusive Hidden People of Iceland

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Magic of the Wishing Doll (and how to make it….)

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• Lighthouses of the world

Tévennec: France’s legendary haunted lighthouse

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• History

Benzaiten, the Japanese Goddes of love and all that flows

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• Myths and Legends

Sko-Ella: the tale of the woman worse than the Devil

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions
• Weather

Things you probably didn’t know about snow

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